GOLD COINS
PEOPLE NOW PREFER NOTES. UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE IN AUCK LAND. (Special to the Times.) , AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. People seem now as anxious to get rid ox gold coins as they were to acquire them when they were not to be had. Paper money apparently is preferred. Three people received half sovereigns last evening says the “Star," one being a tram conductor who accepted the coin as a fare and gave 'change, and two restaurant diners who tendered £L notes lor thcii meal and received gold as change In the case of the latter one ol them was amazed to receive back the very coin he had parted with ycais ago'. “It was early in the war'’ he said, “and my last piece of gold.-*! said to myself “I’ll mark you ioi luck, vou little beauty.” so I did mark ‘it, and in a peculiar way, and you may judge of my astonishment when I ‘got it back last night after all these”years. I.t’s mine for keeps now, I’ll not part with it again.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10312, 22 January 1927, Page 11
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174GOLD COINS Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10312, 22 January 1927, Page 11
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